This book brings together the lectures delivered between June 2023 and June 2024 during the Advanced Cultural Studies Courses held at the University for Foreigners of Perugia, in which six authoritative scholars, David Bidussa, Gian Piero Brunetta, Filippo Focardi, Carlo Olmo, Simonetta Soldani e Mauro Volpi, explored the theme “Reinventing Italy. Italian culture between the Resistance and Reconstruction (1943–1948)”. At a time when neo-nationalism is making a strong comeback, and national history risks being reinterpreted through its prism of values, the contributions of these authors analyse, from different disciplinary perspectives and in an original manner, aspects of Italian culture from that era that have hitherto been little explored. They also address the link between the Resistance and the Constitution, to which the introduction to the volume assigns an inescapable centrality.
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Alessandro Simoncini
La Resistenza come laboratorio collettivo dell’emancipazionepp.11-30
pp.31-43
Filippo Focardi
Lo stereotipo del «bravo italiano» e del «cattivo tedesco» come paradigma della memoria italiana del fascismo e della Seconda guerra mondialepp.65-84
Gian Piero Brunetta
I cammini della speranza. I primi passi del cinema italiano tra le macerie del dopoguerrapp.85-100
David Bidussa
Pratiche culturali di «nuova Italia» tra guerra e secondo dopoguerrapp.101-120
Carlo Olmo
Una ricostruzione à la Sebald: tra paralisi razionale-emotiva dei cittadini e «protezione» delle élitespp.121-130
Book Title
Reinventare l’Italia
Book Subtitle
La cultura italiana tra Resistenza e Ricostruzione (1943-1948)
Editors
Alessandro Simoncini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
144
Publication Year
2026
Copyright Information
© 2026 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press, Perugia Stranieri University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-99811-32-7
ISBN Print
978-88-99811-30-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-99811-32-7
eISBN (epub)
978-88-99811-34-1
Series Title
Studi di storia e critica delle idee